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St. Albans MRF Upgrade - 01/04/2004

St Albans District council have upgraded their MRF system to handle greater volumes. Installation of a Fully automatic T60 H Auto baling machine and an automatic can baling machine model UBC. The existing MRF conveyors have been modified with storage bunkers to handle greater throughputs and help ensuring a high quality end product. The material is sorted into grades off the sorting conveyor into bulking hopper, Overband magnet removes the steel and then the Aluminium cans, Plastic bottles are removed manually. Once material has built up in the bunker hopper the front doors would be opened and the material fed onto the infloor chain driven conveyor. From here the diverter on the baling press feed conveyor would be set to run the cans direct into the UBC Can baling machine or through the bottle piercing machine direct into the T60 H Auto Fully Automatic Horizontal bale press. The Can baling machine will automatically compact the steel or aluminium cans into small bales measuring approx. 380 x 380 x 150 mm long with a weigh of approx. 5 to 10kg. The plastic bottles would be baled and automatically tied using 4 mm steel wire, the bale weight is approx. 280 kg and is suitably sized to maximise transport space on either a standard trailer or sea container for export if required.